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POLLU'TE, L. polluo polluceo and possideo.

1. To defile to make foul or unclean in a general sense. But appropriately, among the Jews, to make unclean or impure, in a legal or ceremonial sense, so as to disqualify a person for sacred services, or to render things unfit for sacred uses. Numbers 18; Exodus 20; 2 Kings 23 . 2 Chronicles 36

2. To taint with guilt.

Ye pollute yourselves with all your idols. Ezekiel 20

3. To profane to use for carnal or idolatrous purposes.

My sabbaths they greatly polluted. Ezekiel 20

4. To corrupt or impair by mixture of moral or physical.

Envy you my praise, and would destroy

With grief my pleasures, and pollute my joy?

5. To violate by illegal sexual commerce.

POLLU'TE, a. Polluted defiled.